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ELA and LAB demand "more leadership" from the government to convene employers to negotiate their own SMI
LAB's General Coordinator, Garbiñe Aranburu , and ELA's Secretary General, Mitxel Lakuntza , have stressed the need to "extend self-government" through a Basque minimum wage of their own.
The average income in the Basque Country increased by 7.2% in 2024, to 28,170 euros
By territory, Gipuzkoa has the highest average income (29,559 euros), followed by Bizkaia (27,733 euros) and Álava (26,698 euros).
The Basque Government expects a 4.5% wage increase for public employees by 2027
"We are looking at this 4.5% situation in the budgets, and there was also the possibility of an additional review by 2026 based on inflation," said Finance Adviser Noël d'Anjou.
Diaz gives experts until November to make proposals on raising the minimum wage
Díaz recalled that the CPI has increased to 4.9%, and that it is the job of experts to "provide guarantees so as not to lose purchasing power."
Pradales wants to support a country agreement on absenteeism and move forward "without red lines" on the minimum wage
The lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, has supported a "country agreement" to address the problem of absenteeism because Euskadi cannot be "at the top of the ranking": "We are throwing stones at the roof of the Gere". He has also advocated moving forward in the Basque Country "without red lines" in the Interprofessional Minimum Wage, for which he has considered it essential that both parties sit at the same table: trade unions and employers.
UGT urges Pradales to allocate business profits to wages
The chairman of the management committee of UGT Euskadi, José Manuel "Tximi" López, has defended before the lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, the need for the profits of large companies to be reflected in the wages of workers and has asked the Basque Government to mediate so that the Basque employers can sit down and negotiate the interprofessional minimum wage through agreements.
Pensioners will again demand in Vitoria next Thursday that minimum pensions be supplemented up to the SMI
With this mobilisation, they would like to remind the Basque Government and Parliament that 'the commitment that the supplement to minimum pensions should reach the SMI cannot be extended any longer, especially when the cost of living is becoming significantly higher', pensioners have argued.
Confebask will not attend tomorrow's meeting between ELA and LAB to negotiate his own minimum wage
The employers argue that the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country ruled that negotiating this matter was "illegal." The assembly was scheduled to take place tomorrow, a week after the general strike of the 17M.
ELA and LAB believe that the working class and the union force have emerged "strengthened and closer to achieving their goal"
The convening unions expect the general strike of March 17 to be "successful"
ELA, LAB, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde have pointed out that the support for the strike is being "very broad" and that the working committees of 1,750 companies and hundreds of social partners have already joined the 24-hour unemployment.
Dozens of social partners have joined the March 17 strike for their own minimum wage
"Having a minimum wage of its own in the Basque Country is a demand that benefits all the people who work and live in it," they said at a hearing in Bilbao.
TSJPV rejects ELA and LAB's lawsuit against Confebask
The Ministry of Labour proposes an increase in the minimum wage of 3.1% to €1,221 gross per month
Faced with the strike in favour of the Minimum Wage itself, the Basque Chamber is in favour of negotiating 'until dawn', but 'without threats'
There will be news: Ábalos and Koldo García have spent their first night in prison, the visit of the German president to Gernika and Saretz
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
State officials' salaries will increase by 11% until 2028
In addition to the salary increase, the pact includes staff reinforcement and internal promotion improvements. CCOO has not yet supported the agreement.
The PNV calls on unions and employers to "set aside the red lines" to negotiate the minimum wage EH Bildu denounces the "veto of the debate"
The PSE-EE advocates "collective bargaining," while the PP points to the "loss of competitiveness" as a reason to oppose its own rule.
News: 10 years since the attacks in the Bataclan Hall, a minimum wage of its own in the Basque Parliament and the presentation of the Korrika
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
The debate on the own minimum wage will be debated today in Parliament without support to move forward
from 9:30, ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde will defend the Popular Legislative Initiative (with 138,000 signatures in favour) in the Basque Parliament, but the result seems to have been decided: PNV and PSE-EE will vote against the procedure in accordance with the Basque Government's view.
Basque trade unions ask the Basque Government to change its position on the minimum wage
Thousands of people demonstrated this Wednesday in Bilbao, called by the unions ELA, LAB, ESK, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde , to demand that they respect "the will of the citizens" and criticize Confebask's "blockade."